Book of Phoenix Ashes

After my grand massacre, “The Day of Ashes” as they call and celebrate annually, As if a way to thank me, Thank me for, killing.

After a year has passed, being known as Phoenix, a dreadful name, I was in need of control, of specifically myself, I’ve learned through trial and error that my style of learning needs discipline, and is flaw full in multiple ways. I packed my saddle bags, called for my close companion, Bella, who landed and Perched happily atop my head, I set off north east, to the mountains, to consult the legendary elemental monks. It, the journey, was a long one, by half the way I collapsed from exertion, my legs where in such pain, I blacked out, the last thing I remember feeling is the cold of the stairs up to the monk’s monastery. I woke in a warm bed, with a pair of large Female griffoness, one with the looks of a Snowy Owl, and the other to the right was of the appearance of a Phoenix. The Elemental profession of the Phoenix Griffon I knew by instinct was fire, the Owl Griffon, I had little but to find out. “Hello Blaze, we heard that your arrival would be soon,” the Owl Griffoness chimed with a soft voice, “I’d be more concerned of his health,” the Phoenix griffon other right promptly remarked with a sense of concern in her voice, “Well I never concern myself into your health ’Miss Ashy!”’

Said the Owl griffon to the Phoenix Griffon, “Whatever Amethyst,” the Phoenix griffon Passed Amethyst now knowing the Owl Griffons name. I looked at her, her neck and wings a snow white, and with large dark yellow eyes that look back with your reflection in them, her pulps changed fast in size to the flickering flames light. She spoke now more urgent, “I hear you hail from my home Kingdom, I never knew that you’d have some association with Griffon,” I just stared in silence, then Bella came to mind, “W-where’s my companion?”

She looked at me for a moment slightly nerved and said “You mean the Sun Phoenix, we put her in a….”

She couldn’t finish her sentence before I stood in fury, feathers smoking as I look down at her from the bed in the room, “You put her in a Cage!”

I yelled infuriated at the insidious crime, well in my mind it is insidious, Amethyst looked up, and lurched back a bit “Where sorry, we know she was yours but she was being so defensive of you, Phlogiston had to…!” I interrupt her once more, “Let her go, I wish to hear from this Phlogiston,”

I jumped down from the bed but before reaching the exit I remarked “I don’t blame Bella for being as such, neither should you.” I left the room, Amethyst close behind to hurry along and take the lead, Bella flew out of an open door and perched on my outstretched wing, the large black and grey bipedal dragon soon following with an word from Amethyst, “Phlogiston, Blaze wanted to meet you.” The Dragon spoke, “I can tell, by the way he looks so un-eased, I told you to leave the bird with the Colt, but you didn’t listen.” Amethyst put her head down, “well I didn’t mean to fend for myself, jerk”

she walked away leaving me with the dragon, who shook his head in disbelief, “So young, so immature.”

I follow Phlogiston, we talk I learn of his element which is air, and eventually he gets my motive for coming here, “Self-control, the best way to learn self-control of the winds is running, besides you must first run, before you can breathe” I ponder this question, to then begin to suffocate, the air pulled from my lungs, Phlogiston looks at me, “Run, and you will be breathing, but don’t stop till I instruct so,” I obeyed and ran, and ran, for what felt like days, I ran so far, up the mountain, over it, everywhere, till he said to stop, and I stopped. He then teaching me shouts, and so much more to the point of unexplainable proportion, he helped me as much as he could.

I then met with the Phoenix Griffon, Kestrel, “H-hello Blaze,” she seemed nervous, she was quite young by the looks, almost around about my age. I walking up to her and sitting next to her with my will to learn from her, but she avoided eye contact, “I know what you did with my element, you have little control of it when emotion flairs, don’t you?” I nodded, “I know how you feel Blaze, I was like you, but I learned fast, that fire is not controllable, It can be used for good, or bad, and I know you feel you did bad, but it’s not your fault, you can’t help yourself let alone another until you help yourself.” I listened to her as she spoke, “Fire is the love you put in it, you must improve it, you must learn on your own, you are 'The Phoenix.'” she looked at me “And you shall learn from yourself, and teach your Phoenix, who sits incomplete due to you, her father’s inability.” I looked at her, listening to every word, “You must never let go of hope, now go to Hydra, she will teach you fires opposite.” I stood, and headed off, without missing Kestrels Faint, but distinctly sad sigh.

I walked to the beach, looking for some sort of life, to find nothing, I sat and there she was, walking up from the water, or as the water she was the water, she walked over to me the transparent Pegasus composed of H2O, “A-are you who I think you are?” I said wondering with her reply, “If you were Looking for Hydra, you found me!” she said with a giggle.

“I will teach you how you flow, and work in with the many as well as with water,” I got ready for a speech, but she walked up and sat next to me, “I must get a feel for your soul,” she touched with her liquid hoof, I felt a shock and jumped a bit, “Well aren’t you a weird, soft and rough at one time, odd pony you are,” I looked at her with a tiny blush “Sure.” I said, then she replied “We begin with waves, move with them, as them, then make them, it will take time”

She spoke with a positive word, but she had other intent. I did all that she instructed, I learned a lot form her too, but why was Kestrel so shy and rather to converse, I later found out in a rather sudden matter, but that is far from the age of 11. I them moved to Amethyst, after my training with Hydra, I had a feeling that earth was on my crosshairs, I walked up to her to be immediately pounced, “Hey Phoenix, doncha think it a bit late for you youth to be out and about, I tried to answer but she simply lifted a stone under neth me, and with a swift motion after unpinning me to the ground, and shot into my quarters where Bella be perched asleep, Amethyst walked in and put me to bed. “Sleep, you need it,” I couldn’t help but feel tired, and quickly dosed away into the deep abyss of sleep, to wake with a Owl griffon laying in front of me on the floor asleep, “Amethyst, you awake,” no answer, I felt a movement behind me and a long talon wrap around me, it startled me to the core, and I jumped out of bed, the talon of stone, Amethyst now laughing “Hahaha you should’ve seen you’re face!” I grimace, “Really Ame!” I said to her in a mode of disbelief, “I like the pet name, might keep it, if I can call you Blazey?”

she mocked at this point I was annoyed, “What is it?”

I look at her with a frown “I don’t have ti….” she interrupted me before I finished “You have all eternity, gosh, soften up!”

I stood ready for a lesson, and I sure got one, pelted with rocks, baited with food, all of the above, for the moment, I’m sick of those two griffin, they and their constant bickering and biting of each other’s necks, and of my own. Story time for today is over.